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MyGuide Works!

Choose the only program individualized for each student based on his or her actual assessment results—choose the MyGuide™ Personal Learning Program.

The Grow Network

The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill (“Grow”) was founded in 2000 with a unique mission: to transform standardized testing results into meaningful opportunities to improve student learning. Grow accomplishes this goal through innovative print and online reporting and the MyGuide™ Personal Learning Program, a suite of personalized, data-driven learning materials. Grow serves over 35% of the nation’s tested students in Grades 3–8 and has successfully delivered over 1.2 million personalized study guides to students in several states.

Nationally Recognized

The National Governors Association showcased Grow’s study guide program as one of the top ten initiatives states are implementing to reform high schools—as noted in Getting it Done: Ten Steps to a State Action Agenda, A Guidebook of Promising State and Local Practices.

Highly Visible and Successful

  • Texas: Grow has provided individualized study guides to Texas students since Fall, 2004. Governor Rick Perry has publicly credited the Texas study guide program with improving passing rates on the state assessment.
  • Arizona: Arizona students have used the individualized study guides since Fall, 2005. Arizona expanded its program in 2006 to include all students in Grade 9 as well as students who failed the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS).

“This was new to me, but it was also very helpful. I passed my TAKS. Thanks! :)”

– Texas high school student

“The study guide gave me confidence.”

– Arizona high school student

“Once I looked at the study guide, I knew I could do it, but what made me pass was knowing that they were serious about this. I knew I had to take my time with the test, and read carefully. I felt that this time they were really holding me accountable…I knew I better give it my best shot. It was not so much the guide itself that helped me pass instead it was the message it gave me.”

– Arizona high school student

“...Texas is also the first state to implement personalized Study Guides for students at risk of dropping out, resulting in a 19 point increase among 11th grade students passing the TAKS test in just one year's time.”

– Governor Rick Perry, Press Release, February 2006

“Kids have taken more ‘ownership’ of the test preparation process, all because the guide has been prepared especially for them. They feel special, like someone has taken the time to help them be successful.”

– Vice Principal of Instruction, Lubbock High School, Texas

“Inside each Personalized Study Guide, made available to every student who has not passed AIMS, is a graph that shows how the student fared on the last reading, writing and math test he or she took.”

– Payson Roundup

“The Arizona Department of Education sent free, personalized study guides to juniors and seniors who were planning to take the Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards exam. The guides have space at the front dedicated to each student’s prior test scores, broken down into how the student did on each group of questions.”

– Arizona Daily Star

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